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PUBERTY: SNEAKING UP ON GIRLS
In the 1960s, girls typically entered puberty between ages 10 and 11. Now that age has fallen to between 10 and 10½.
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TOO MUCH TO STOMACH: THE COSTS OF FOOD POISONING
This spring, over 300 people dining at the venerable Harvard Faculty Club became ill with a norovirus,. The infection can be transmitted directly from person to person, but it is far more often spread through food which has been contaminated with the germs of someone infected with the disease.
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BIG CITY BLUES: HOW ENVIRONMENT INFLUENCES STRESS LEVEL
According to recent Gallup polls, if you live in Hawaii, North Dakota, Iowa, Wyoming or South Dakota, you’re less likely to report feeling stressed out than if you live in Kentucky, West Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut or Rhode Island.
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DIABETES: ARE YOU AT RISK?
The odds an American has already been diagnosed with diabetes are 1 in 16.53, more than double what the odds were just 30 years ago.
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THE RELATIVE RARITY OF TETANUS
The odds a person will be diagnosed with tetanus in a year are 1 in 7,302,000. You’re more than twice as likely to die falling out of a tree (1 in 3,290,000).
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FOOD AND CANCER
Although most of us think we eat pretty well—the odds an adult considers him- or herself a healthy eater are 1 in 1.56 (64%)—cancer remains the second most common cause of death in America, after heart disease.
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POLLY WANTS AN UNDERWRITER: THE GROWTH INDUSTRY OF PET INSURANCE
Vaccinations, worming, and spaying or neutering are standard expenses for dog and cat owners, and even pocket-sized pets can develop health problems that require medical treatment.
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ALMOST HALF OF AMERICANS HAVE A CONDITION THAT MAY KILL THEM
According to a report released Friday from the CDC, almost half of Americans already have a chronic condition which could lead to a heart attack or stroke. And many don’t even know it.
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MEDICAL MARIJUANA
Today health experts are cautiously—and under specific conditions—singing marijuana's praises. That has sizeable fractions of the 1 in 2.46 who've ever used it, and of the 1 in 1.68 (60%) who haven't, all lit up.
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FEVERISH CLAIMS
Your armpit's temperature falls consistently below 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit. The underside of your tongue probably isn’t normal, either; hot drinks, gum-chewing, and birth control pills all change what the thermometer says.
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